Iran's Intelligence Ministry said on Saturday that 31 people had been arrested in Kerman province over alleged involvement in four organized networks it said were preparing to take part in nationwide protest calls and street unrest. The ministry said the groups, based in Sirjan, had been organized under names intended to appeal to teenagers and young people and had drawn up plans for participation in future nationwide calls for protests. It also accused members of making Molotov cocktails and tools for damaging surveillance cameras, and of involvement in protests during the nationwide protests in January. iranintl.com/en/202610037870

Taiwan’s Coast Guard Administration (CGA) used a water cannon to drive off the Chinese fishing boat "Jin Sha" after it refused repeated orders to leave restricted waters near Taiwan-held Dongsha Island on Thursday.

We're becoming inured to the daily declines in Iran's currency, but there's nothing normal about what's happening. Since the reimposition of the blockade on July 14, the Rial is down 30% against the Dollar. That's a symptom of Iran's economy imploding... robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/…

At least five people were reported killed on Friday in an attack near Zahedan in southeastern Iran, as the Revolutionary Guards confirmed a roadside bombing in the area that killed one of its fighters. iranintl.com/en/202610028639

Iran loaded ZERO crude oil onto tankers in September. The Trump Administration is cutting off the Iranian regime’s most critical source of revenue. Operation Economic Outcast is severing the economic lifelines that have allowed Tehran to finance its terrorist agenda.

US President Donald Trump shared footage on Truth Social Thursday showing protesters marching in the central city of Isfahan in January.

Iran is reaching the end of the road. Its biggest trading partner earlier this year had been the UAE, but that trade got shut down. That only leaves Turkey as a trading partner and US sanctions are now taking that trade down to zero. Total isolation... robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/…

BREAKING: Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz says preliminary information indicates the co-pilot who stabbed the captain of a Flydubai flight acted intentionally and intended to crash the plane. @Jeff_Paul reports Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is also revealing new details, saying the plane went into a spin and began to nosedive before a passenger and crew member broke into the cockpit and subdued the co-pilot. The flight ultimately landed safely after being diverted to Saudi Arabia. Follow for the latest updates as new details emerge: foxnews.onelink.me/xLDS/z2jy…

USS George Washington (CVN 73) conducts flight operations as the aircraft carrier sails in the Arabian Sea.

Students at Allameh Tabataba’i University in Tehran held a protest gathering Monday, chanting against compulsory hijab, the morality police and political repression, according to videos received by Iran International. The students chanted, “Unemployment, exploitation; compulsory hijab for women,” and “Death to tyranny, hijab and the morality police.” Another slogan accused authorities of preaching dialogue while confronting students with force: “Their slogan is dialogue, their guns are pointed at us.” A separate video from the protest showed students chanting, “The streets are drenched in blood, our professors remain silent.”

Iran has played its hand very badly. It's lost control of the Strait of Hormuz, where tanker traffic is the highest in many months. This means Iran has nothing to offer Trump in negotiations, even as its economy is in complete and utter meltdown... robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/…

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday Iran could have “nothing left to trade for anything” within two weeks as Tehran completes its remaining oil deliveries to China. Speaking on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures, Bessent estimated that only about 15 million barrels of Iran’s oil remained out for delivery as the US blockades the ports. “They are going to make their final deliveries of oil to China, and then they will have nothing,” he said. Between 15 million and 22 million barrels of oil are now moving through the Strait of Hormuz each day, Bessent said, compared with about 20 million before the conflict. “The score is the United States, one billion — more than one billion barrels have gotten out — Iran, zero,” he said. He described the purpose of Operation Economic Outcast as ensuring Iran adheres to the terms of any potential future deal. iranintl.com/en/202609288369

"Just imagine such a vile regime were ever empowered to carry out large scale terror attacks from behind a nuclear shield" President Trump speaks on America's efforts to ensure the Islamic Republic of Iran is NEVER allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon.